Note To Self(y): Go Big...

Hi All! Welcome to the mid-month Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring artwork from some of Close To My Heart's retiring Cricut Cartridges. If you just hopped over from the fabulous Shelly Nemitz' blog, One Pretty Piece, you are in the right place.

Today is the last day of school for my kids. Woo HOO! (We're all a bit ready for summer.) So last Friday we hosted an end of the year selfy party for the girls in our art club. All good selfy parties need props, and this is where my Cricut came to the rescue. Let's take a look:

(You gotta do the whole Polaroid thing when you're talking about selfies!) So I went through the icons in all of the CTMH cartridges and came up with the above images from Artiste (retiring [insert heartbroken wail here]), Artistry, and Artbooking. I then sized them REALLY BIG and cut them from  a variety of glitter papers, many of which are also retiring. I then attached them to bamboo skewers (my 1/4-inch wooden dowls went AWOL) and they were ready to go. (I also added an extra cardstock layer to both pairs of glasses to make them a little sturdier since the frames were relatively thin.)

Here's a look at the party set up. (I left the "Polaroid" filter on the pictures for fun.):

The top hat, lips, and bouffant hair are Cricut images. I added an Artistry bow to the hair that matches the hat band.

And that's it! 

The girls had a ball! We had made mini albums in one of the art classes for the party and by the end of Friday they were full of pictures and memories. It was a fantastic ending to a semester of art, and a great beginning for a summer full of adventures.

Now hop on over and see what the lovely Morgan Vogt has for your inspiration at Tweetscraps. And if you get lost along the way, here's a list of the hop participants:

Lynn

Marg

Shelly 

Kim {that's ME}

Morgan

Kristine

Have a happy and creative week!

CTMH Cricut Artistry Collection (with cartridge)	CTMH Cricut Artistry Collection (digital images)	CTMH Cricut Artbooking Collection	CTMH Cricut Artiste Cartridge Collection
CTMH Gold Glitter Paper	CTMH Black & Grey Glitter Paper	CTMH Red Glitter Paper	CTMH Pink Glitter Paper
CTMH Teal Glitter Paper	CTMH Purple Glitter Paper	Sookwang Double-sided Tape	Bamboo Skewers

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Rose Blossom Blog Hop: The Artistry of a Shaker Card...

Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom mid-month Blog Hop featuring Close To My Heart's new Cricut cartridge collection: Artistry. If you just hopped over from the oh-so-talented Shelly's amazing blog, Just One Pretty Piece, you're in the right spot! As always, I'll have a list of the blog participants at the end of this post.

Now on with today's project!

I decided to try my hand at a shaker card. I've never done this before, but when I saw this mason jar with the heart among the Artistry cuts, I knew I had to give it a try. (You can find the mason jar cut on page 2 of the cartridge handbook, and the tag cut is on page 47.)

To create the card, I copied the mason jar 4 times, giving me 5 copies. I used two jars to create the card base by welding them together at the tops and deleting the contour outline of the heart so that the jars were solid. I then used a third jar with the heart as the card front once the base was cut. I cut both the card base and the top layer from Glacier cardstock. Using my deep-cut blade, I cut the fourth jar from craft foam so that it was slightly smaller than the card base with a slightly larger heart than the card front. Finally, I deleted the jar contour from the fifth jar so that I was left with a heart shape that was exactly the same size as the heart on the card front.

To put the card together, I folded the base in half at the top and added the craft foam. To make it fit better, I cut off the top of the fun foam jar along with its lid threads and then adhered it to the top of the base jar. I then adhered the rest of the fun foam jar to the card base centering it as best I could. I cut the heart from a piece of Zoe paper and adhered it to the card base. I then took the negative space piece and added it to the front of the card as a decorative band, sandwiching a small piece of acetate between the paper and the card front. I then removed the adhesive from Coral Reef, Silver, and Gold sequins and added them to the heart-shaped craft foam well on the card base. I thought it needed something more, so I removed the adhesive from the back of some White Enamel Stars and added them too. I then adhered the card front to the craft foam.

To decorate the front of the card, I added some Gold Shimmer Trim. Then I cut three tags from Zoe paper, White Daisy cardstock and gold dot vellum. I stamped in Smoothie ink on the White Daisy tag using stamps from the Perfect Picture stamp set, which is included in the Artistry Cricut collection. I layered the three tags using dimensional and regular adhesives, and then tied them to the card with twine from my stash.

As a final touch, I used a white gel pen to define some of the lines of the jar.

 Here's another look at the card:

I hope you enjoyed my first shaker card. It was so much fun to make, I think I'll be making more! (If anyone has any tips on how to keep static electricity from causing the sequins to stick to the acetate, please leave me a comment. It was really a bit of a problem!)

Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over and see with the incredibly talented Morgan Vogt has for  your inspiration at Tweet Scraps.

If you get lost along the way, here's a list of blog hop participants:

Brenda

Lynn

Shelly

Kim {that'd be me}

Morgan

Cathy
Mary

Kristine

Kim 

Coming tomorrow to a computer near you...

Be sure to hop by for some fantastic, inspirational Artistry....